In-medium effects in the holographic quark gluon plasma [Elektronische Ressource] / by Felix Rust

In mediumeffectsintheholographicquark gluonplasmaDISSERTATION BY FELIX RUSTDISSERTATIONsubmittedtothefacultyofphysicsoftheLudwig Maximilians Universit at¨ Munchen¨incandidacyforthedegreeofDoctorrerumnaturalium(Dr.rer.nat.)byFelixChristianRustbornonJanuary25th1978inHamburgsupervisedbyPDDr.habil.JohannaKarenErdmengerMax Planck Institutf ur¨ Physik,Munchen¨1st Referee: PDDr.habil.JohannaKarenErdmenger2nd Prof.Dr.DieterLust¨Dateofsubmission: May8th2009Dateoforalexamination: August4th2009Revisedversionasof5th2009I Ac 2009byFLXRust,typesetbyLT XEELalutteelle m emeˆ verslessommetssuffita` rempliruncœurd’homme. IlfautimaginerSisypheheureux.Thestruggleitselftowardtheheightsisenoughtofillaman’sheart. OnemustimagineSisyphushappy.ALBERT CAMUSContentsZusammenfassung ixAbstract xiii1 Introduction 12 TheAdS/CFTcorrespondenceandextensions 72.1 TheoriginalAdS/CFTcorrespondence . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.1.1 N = 4 Super Yang Millstheory . . . . . . . . . . 82.1.2 TypeIIBsupergravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112.1.3 TheMaldacenaconjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.1.4 AnAdS/CFTdictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202.1.5 Testsandevidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.2 Generalizationsandextensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.2.1 FinitetemperatureandAdSblackholes . . . . . . . 272.2.2 Fundamentalmatter—addingflavor . . . . . . . . . 322.3 Holographicquantumchromodynamics . . . . . . . . . . .